• DocumentCode
    416947
  • Title

    Map building by mobile robots with incomplete and qualitative observation

  • Author

    Yairi, Takehisa ; Hori, Koichi

  • Author_Institution
    Tokyo Univ., Japan
  • Volume
    2
  • fYear
    2003
  • fDate
    4-6 Aug. 2003
  • Firstpage
    1482
  • Abstract
    This paper introduces two kinds of unique map building methods for mobile robots. One is for building metric or object coordinate maps, and the other is for topological or qualitative state transition maps. A common feature of these methods is that they use only very coarse qualitative information called "co-visibility" or information on what landmark objects are visible together at each position.
  • Keywords
    hidden Markov models; learning (artificial intelligence); mobile robots; object recognition; robot vision; coarse qualitative information; covisibility; learning; map building methods; metric map building; mobile robots; object coordinate maps; object recognition; qualitative observation; qualitative state transition maps; topological map building;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    SICE 2003 Annual Conference
  • Conference_Location
    Fukui, Japan
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-8352-4
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    1324190